My girlfriend cleans our house with vinegar, works great, just have to open the windows for a minute after.
YAY Hold Washing!!!
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Tried vinger today.
WOW!
I'm officially converted to using vinegar for all hold cleaning.I did a small scale test with 8L first.
Strung a bunch of holds onto some utility cord, dunked them, pulled them out. Rinsed. Took about 10 minutes total, and they are cleaner than ever.Thanks!
Posted 1 year ago # -
AWESOME!
Posted 1 year ago # -
We use a muriatic acid bath, and a base wash (pH fixer from a pool supply, IIRC). Buckets with holes drilled them are filled with holds. A 15-20 soak in the acid, a couple dunks in the base to neutralize, and then a hose rinse. Holds come out looking damn good.
Vinegar sounds interesting, Im down to try it, if only for cost if it is cheaper. You are just relying on the acetic acid in the vinegar to break down the chalk carbonates, same mechanism as muriatic (hydrochloric), just smells like vinegar... so I'm a little leery, but willing to try it out.
If the acid concentration is kept up (which is pretty low, a couple cups, MAYBE into 10 gallons of water. Safe enough to get on your hands, but no harnesses worn when washing, for obvious reasons.
Our system lets us go through buckets of holds pretty quickly, there is a chicken wire drying rack with a big ass fan blowing on the holds, if its a decently hot day a hold goes from dirty to wall ready in less than 45 minutes with minimal labor.
Posted 12 months ago # -
Tried out the vinegar as well recently as a pre trial before our facility goes into its comp season. I`am certainly impressed with the timing in which the carbon magnesium actually has been disintegrated from dirty grips. Three minutes to be exact in a 100% Vinegar bath consisting off 5% Acetic white vinegar. No difference in action time with double the amount of Acetic 10%. Did I mention no scrubbing.......Exactly, no scrubbing chalked up, caked on grips. So this product is no brainer. Approximately a $1 a litre or $3.78 a gallon for the southerners. No need changing the the vinegar bath either. Just keep adding vinegar as needed and us some variety of meshed supply crate (filled with dirty grips) to do the dipping with. Then straight into a water (cold) dunk rinse, dry, sort and start spinning them into routes or boulder problems.
One Q for those seasoned route setters on this forum though. Is there a miracle solution that eliminates boot rubber on dirty holds by simply dunking and not scrubbing?
With the vinegar it will not erraticate built up rubber to same effectiveness as carbon magnesium. Perhaps boot rubber is the necessary evil with route setting and will never be obsolete without a little elbow grease scrubbing?
Another reason I am all over the vinegar product as it will not threaten to melt the skin off the bone of volunteer hold scrubbers. Vive La "sour wine"!
Thx
Posted 10 months ago # -
I found that the boot rubber came off in the vinegar quite nicely, however our holds are clay and the rubber doesn't stick to them as much.
Thank you for joining the vinegar revolution!
Posted 10 months ago # -
Okay, I know this is an old thread and I don't have a ton to add (although there hasn't been a new post on here in a week, so why the hell not), but I finally hopped on the vinegar revolution and it is amazing. As has been said before, no scrubbing required unless you have a personal vendetta against shoe rubber. I just ran a 2 gallon trial and the holds came out looking new (especially my rock candy and soill holds!). Going out to buy another 10 gallons and start a full-scale hold-washing station. Maybe this will even get some of the other setters to finally start washing holds since its so damn easy now!
Posted 7 months ago # -
so today i used the So Ill grip wash. it worked amazingly well. Didnt have to scrub a hold at all. The chalk and rubber just came right off. Definitely beats scrubbing every hold or trying to pressure wash or anything. I used the bucket system, but I'd imagine it'd work very well in a washing machine as well. I'll post some photos.
Posted 5 months ago # -
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Posted 5 months ago # -
@ackendrick Those "after" shots excite me in ways I know they probably shouldn't.
I'm definitely trying this method when I have a chance!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Vinegar all the way! Go try it. Buy a gallon for a dollar and try it. Your life will be so much easier! I was a non-believer until i tried it!
Posted 4 months ago # -
I finally got my gym to try out vinegar after the pressure washer broke down... again!
Once they saw how well it works they went out and bought a 55 gallon drum!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Ive been buying boxes with 2 gallons in the box for about 3 dollars from Sams club. Usually 100 gallons at a time. 20 gallons in a big Rubbermaid thing last months of hold washing everyday. Where do you get the drums from and how much if you don't mind?
Posted 4 months ago # -
We got it from a place called National Vinegar Company here in Houston. Don't know how much it cost cause I had nothing to do with the actual purchase.
Posted 4 months ago # -
On the main routesetter web page if you go to tools there is an article on how muiratic acid cleaning solutions damage holds and over time give them that unpleasant greasy texture that i hate. so i was wondering if anyone knew wether the soill cleaning stuff is muiratic acid or not and if the vinegar would do the same type of damage over time since your still using a type of acid to clean the holds.
Posted 4 months ago # -
just tried vinegar. definately a fan. didn't do much for caked rubber but then again what does. some day I will try the soill product as well, am a bit skeptical that it would do much better than vinegar considering the cost difference...
Posted 3 months ago #
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